What is recorded here

One woman lost her husband there and kept returning to touch the cross until her fingers bled. The slab had no name, no date, no claim except the shape of suffering made visible. She stopped coming when she stopped believing he existed. The graveyard kept his absence instead.

This limestone cross-slab (H 0.78m; Wth 0.26m; T 0.1m) is in the graveyard known as Cnocan na mBan (GA110-048001-). Its E face bears a simple Latin cross with rounded terminals at the head and foot of the shaft. The arms run to the edge of the slab. The cross-slab is in a secondary position having been wedged into a loose socket in the graveyard (Higgins 1987, vol. 11, 283, no. 14). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 7 April 2016

This cross-slab likely dates to the early medieval period, possibly between the 8th and 11th centuries, and may have served as a Christian memorial or waymarker. The Latin cross suggests a Christian association, potentially linked to early monastic or ecclesiastical activity in the area.

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